Calorie Cycling: Legit Or A New Fad?
A common misconception with calorie cycling is that it’s a new “fad” to lose weight. The truth is, bodybuilders have been using it for years. Calorie cycling is just taking the same concept and applying it to LOSE weight.
What calorie cycling does is take the way that our bodies were made (since evolution) and spins it to work for the way that our bodies are now.
The thing is – when we first started out as cavemen, we had totally different lifestyles. We chased our food to the ground, we were very active, and we didn’t sit around and watch T.V. for hours on end in our heated homes.
(Not saying there’s anything wrong with that – but it’s a fact of life.)
Anyway, when people used to eat in the cavemen era, they never knew when they were getting more food… so every time they’d eat, they would eat a LOT… and their bodies adjusted and held on to the food as “fat storages”. Their metabolisms literally slowed down to adjust for the fact that they were eating the way that they were.
Today, this isn’t the case. We still eat a lot… but we don’t need the body to hold on to fat storages, because we always have a lot of food around.
Our bodies don’t know this though… so when we eat the extra food, it continues to hold everything.
With calorie cycling (also known as shifting calories or the zigzag method), the metabolism can never remain stagnant, because the user is constantly “shocking” it by changing up their calorie intake.
Some days they might eat less calories, and some more… so the body can’t adjust to one set way of eating (most people eat consistently high calorie, or even consistently low calorie), and the whole “fat storage” formula is shocked.
The body doesn’t know what to do – hold on to fat storage, don’t hold on to fat storage – and as a result, you end up losing weight.
While this sounds a bit odd, it’s actually very healthy and is recommended by most doctors and psychologists.
